The Charcoal People

Rating:

No Rating

Genre:

Drama

Release Date:

April 20, 2001

Running time:

70 minutes

Director:

Nigel Noble

Producer:

José Padilha

Writer:

José Padilha

Description: Explores the lives of sixty thousand laborers employed in cutting down forests and producing charcoal for the multi-national pig-iron industry. Poor, illiterate, isolated and indebted, these laborers engage in backbreaking toil which has calamitous social and health ramifications.